the heat that drives the light

Kyle Boone, a serial killer on death row for murdering several young men, is only a few days from his execution. He says he’ll make a deal. If he is allowed to meet with the man who tracked him down and arrested him, one NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, he’ll tell him where the remains of the rest of his victims can be found. Gibbs wrestles with the fact that Boone killed his first lover and now has taken an interest in his current lover, Special Agent Tony DiNozzo.This is an Alternate Reality version of the episode S3-03 Mind Games.

Isak, Chris and a much needed conversation. Isak, Even, Chris featuring Mr. Jealousy and Some pounding. *Wink*

When Bofur ends up making a delightful mess of his hobbit when they get a brief chance for intimacy on the quest, he decides he'll just have to clean him up.

Zuko realizes his destiny much earlier. As in, as soon as he wakes up in the palace after his Agni Kai and is told he is banished. Unfortunately, he's never been a patient one. So he storms right up to Ozai and tells him what he's going to do. And gets locked up for over three years. Then, one day, he's being pulled out and told he's the new Fire Lord. A "Zuko never meets the Gaang and suddenly becomes Fire Lord after three years of literal torture" AU. In which the Gaang doesn't know what to think of the new Fire Lord who happens to be the missing nephew of Aang's firebending teacher, Iroh constantly has a headache, and, sure, maybe the world hates the Fire Nation, but the Fire Nation LOVES Zuko, and he can work with that.

The night Voldemort attacked, Lily Potter had found a way to enhance an ancient magic that would protect her son as well as the caster from the killing curse. Almost 15 years later, after being rescued from the Dursleys by Snape, Harry comes across a letter and necklace that will change everything.

Harry Potter is forced to leave Percy Jackson in the hands of the Dark Lord and his followers. When Harry finds him again, his friend is almost unrecognizable. - “You don't have to come back.” Harry’s going off-script, he knows he is, but he can’t help it. He needs to offer his friend a way out. “I’d understand. I— I could help you run off. Find you someplace where no wixen will ever see you again.” But Harry’s offer doesn’t even seem to tempt him. “Nah.” Percy smiles, but its easiness doesn’t come as naturally as it did before. “‘Course I’m coming to help. Couldn’t leave you to fight this on your own. Not even if I wanted to.” There’s a pause and then Harry hears him whisper something under his breath. “Just because I don’t like being a weapon doesn’t mean I won’t do it.” Harry hates himself for feeling relieved.

An illness has been sweeping through the lower towns of Camelot. With the physician's quarters quickly being overfilled with patients, the King's Consort aids Gaius in healing the ill. But as Arthur notices something wrong with his lover, he worries that his Consort's giving nature has perhaps been his downfall.

Quiet and Ocelot have a lot of interests in common, but nobody else on Mother Base gives their relationship a second thought. Maybe they should have.

Derek wants Stiles for his mate...

Archie puts on a clean, wash-worn t-shirt and walks over to the bed, sits down and waits. Jughead feels as if he’s being pulled forward, as if Archie’s the sun and Jughead is a planet falling into his orbit. He felt a little like that this summer, before everything, and that was new and scary too; they used to be on equal footing and then everything changed, broke, fell apart.

Sometimes Vulcans wonder how Spock managed to get himself such an exotic partner, and sometimes Spock wonders the same thing.

When the Hulk and Clint are injured on a mission, Bruce and Thor ruminate on mortality

Now that he can think clearly again Lucifer prays he did the right thing by mating with Sammy.

If assassins didn't kill Esca, the sheer tension between them most certainly would. A Forced-To-Inhabit-The-Same-Space troped fic if there ever was one.

RATED EXPLICIT FOR A REASON. Snarry One-shot Fanfic! Harry Potter has a secret fantasy he wants to share with his Potions Professor. Gender isn't always important when it comes to love, nor is someone's sex. I don't own any of the characters, everything belongs to JK Rowling!

This is a story about you. You meeting Tom Hiddleston at a party, you sharing a glass of wine with him and you falling for him.

Thor's life was measured in centuries, not days.

"Cece, honey," Carlos' hand was poised in the air, two or three inches from the solid oak of their bathroom door. He wanted to knock, to try the doorknob and see if it was locked... to do something. He settled on, "Are you alright? I thought I heard crying -," Cecil cut him off with a loud sniffle, "It hurts, Carlos." "Cecil?" Another whimper. "I'm coming in, okay? Just hold on and -,"

Upon finding his third and final clone, David, Big Boss brings him to live under his roof. Spending most of his time away as the commander of Outer Heaven, he leaves the quarrelsome and lonely twins Solid and Liquid Snake to all but raise themselves.

Little Red Riding Hood meets science fiction, as a lunar base finds itself under siege, and sole survivor Poppy falls prey to an alien life form.

Leonard is ten years old and terrified, staring up at a beast that he never believed could exist, no matter how many times he saw them on the holovids. To see it before him, real and in detail, to smell the stench of it, to hear that deafening cry, to feel the ground tremble beneath his feet... it would drive a man into insanity. It had many times before so when Leonard sits safe in the Alaska jaeger base medbay hours later, shivering uncontrollably, he wonders when exactly he will lose himself to madness or if it has already begun.

They knew somebody had been in the house. How the three bears felt when they discovered their home had been violated.